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| 15 June 2012 | The Great Divide Podcasts have arrived |
| 12 February 2012 | This site is now available at www.bigcountry.info (as well as www.bigcountryinfo.com and www.jfng.com) |
| 3 May 2011 | The Timeline now includes information on Big Country’s show history |
| 1 June 2009 | New website for Bruce and Jamie Watson: http://www.bruceandjamiewatson.co.uk |
| 1 June 2009 | Quick links to most Big Country releases are available in the collage on the home page. |
| 22 March 2009 | With the addition of the pages for tabs and chords, the site has now over 1000 pages. |
| 22 March 2009 |  For the guitar playing enthusiast: Guitar tabs and chords for Big Country songs have been been gathered from across the internet and brought here. |
| 23 July 2008 | Improved Search feature added. |
| 27 June 2008 |  Most entries in the Discography now have Variations pages, which show additional graphics of the release and, where applicable, a comparison with similar releases, including posters and postcards that have been included in releases. Click on the camera icon wherever you see it. In addition, most of the graphics have been rescanned. |
| 9 May 2008 | A new look to the site. Go to the Introduction and to Info for details |
| 14 January 2008 |
A page titled “Various Artists” created to showcase tracks that have appeared in movie soundtracks and ‘Various Artists’ compilations |
| 16 November 2007 | Pages created in the Covers section for the songs played at the Big Country Convention in Zaandam in 2002 with Mike Peters and Josh Phillips |
| 15 September 2007 | New page for the forthcoming live release 25 Twenty Five Live, recorded at the Thekla in Bristol on 18 August 2007. |
| 10 September 2007 | Big Country’s first single in seven years, You Lift Me Up (which was initially called ‘The Highest Mountain’) released on the band’s MySpace page. |
| 17 August 2007 | New tracks! New tracks! New tracks!
New tracks! New tracks! Hope and Waterloo, In My Name, Make For The Wire, A Time So Wild & You Lift Me Up |
| 1 August 2007 | New site address!!! www.bigcountryinfo.com See ‘Introduction’ for details. |
| 4 June 2007 | Most of the thumbnails have been changed to 32x32 to allow those who so choose, to use them for icons |
| 1 June 2007 | The way variations of songs has changed a bit. Click on Info for full details. In short, Studio tracks are in Dark Blue and Live tracks are in Aqua. References to digital sources (CD & DVD) in normal type, while analog sources (vinyl, cassette, VHS) are in italics. |
| 16 May 2007 | Big Country (Bruce Watson, Tony Butler and Mark Brzezicki) have announced they will be performing in July at the Glasgow Garage and Aberdeen Lemon Tree. Click here for details |
| 7 March 2007 | The PDF Edition of Michael Wallack’s Book of Lyrics (v2.1) and Discography (v1.11) (on which this site is based) released on his website. |
| 27 February 2007 | Video entries have been added to each song’s discography. |
| 16 January 2007 | Timeline of Big Country releases is now available |
| 2 January 2007 | Thumbnails of albums have been added to lyrics pages next to the discography listings. |
| 25 December 2006 | DELETED |
| 24 December 2006 | New page added for ‘Happy
Christmas (War Is Over)’ as performed by Tony Butler and accompanied
by daughter, Joella. The track can be heard for a short time on the Big Country MySpace
page. |
| 19 December 2006 | New page added for the Greatest Hits CD Included as an insert in the Sunday 10 December 2006 Scottish edition of the News of the World. |
| 15 December 2006 | View concert footage of FourGoodMen from The Starland
Ballroom, Sayreville, New Jersey, 29 November 2006 on YouTube Heart of Wonder & Falling. |
| 21 November 2006 | Two new interviews with Bruce Watson on Canadian radio have been posted in the ‘This & That’ section. |
| 12 November 2006 | Pages added for the upcoming FourGoodMen CD “Heart of Winter” and the new tracks ‘Heart of Wonder’ and ‘Stars Will Fall’. |
| 10 November 2006 | New section of Official Publications created. Included are tour programmes, books and Country Club magazines. Let me know if you have better scans of Country Club magazine issues 11, 16, 31, 32 or 44. [Note: #44 has been obtained :-) ] |
| 23 August 2006 | Covers of ‘Chance’ and ‘Harvest Home’ by John Davey are posted in the Tributes section. |
| 22 June 2006 | Pages added for “FourGoodMen”, including their two new songs, ‘Kiss Cool’ and ‘Falling’. |
| 5 June 2006 | BBC Radio Devon Interview with Tony Butler
is now up in the ‘This & That’
section. All sorts of new releases by artist covering Big Country songs under ‘Tributes’. |
| 20 May 2006 | New interviews with FourGoodMen and Casbah Club posted in the ‘This & That’ section. |
| 12 May 2006 | Solo listings have been revamped to allow easier navigation. You can browse the listings by each solo artist/group or all solo work alphabetically. Links on each page allow one to switch between views at any time. Added to the solo listings are the works of Tony & Mark with ‘On The Air’ as well as a CD Mark created with Simon Townshend. Hopefully, I will be able to the works of ‘The Skids’ soon, but there are still too many tracks yet to be transcribed to make the inclusion presentable. ALSO, a separate set of pages for Instrumental tracks have been created. |
| 3 May 2006 | Bruce Watson has re-joined fellow Big
Country alumnus, Mark Brzezicki in Casbah Club. Read about it at www.casbahclub.co.uk. |
| 10 April 2006 | New under This & That: Video of ‘In A Big Country’ (w/ commentary by Beavis & Butthead) and Maxell commercial (using The Skids’ ‘Into The Valley’) |
| 5 April 2006 | Covers of ‘Just A Shadow’, ‘Fragile Thing’ and ‘In A Big Country’ by Corey Van Norman are posted in the Tributes section |
| 9 March 2006 | Transcripts of interviews released with King Biscuit Flower Hour and Hold The Heart are now online. Other minor corrections here and there. |
| 30 December 2005 | Links to mp3’s of fan tribute songs added on Tribute page. I am looking to add more, so let me know if you of any other songs out there |
| 21 December 2005 | Lyrics for ‘new’ songs on Rarities VIII added. Let me know if you have any corrections. |
| 15 November 2005 | Updated song list to include the forthcoming Rarities VIII. The pages for previously unreleased songs are up, but the lyrics will have to wait until I get to actually hear them. The Video section has been updated to include the upcoming DVD release of Big Country at ‘Rockpalast’ |
| 11 November 2005 | The Video section has been updated to include the upcoming DVD release of ‘Live In Germany ’95’ |
| 30 August 2005 | The shows listed in the ‘Trading Post’ section now have the sets listed. Next on the to do list: Each track’s page listing at which gigs they were played. |
| 20 August 2005 | Lyrics for songs included on the forthcoming Casbah Club CD “Venustraphobia” are in the ‘Solos’ section....well most of them...I still have two to complete |
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| 1 August 2005 | The ‘Special Guests’ section is up. |
| 29 July 2005 | The discography now has the vinyl collection
included. It has been slightly rearranged to accommodate this. The ‘Tribute’ section is now up as well. |
| 24 July 2005 | In anticipation of the forthcoming Casbah Club album, I have put up lyrics for all the songs they have played (so far) in concert. Also, rearranged the solo section by each artist/group. The full alpha solo index is still available. Click Here |
| 22 July 2005 | Video section is now up! |
| 18 July 2005 | This is where it all starts. I have relaunched this site to give greater focus to the work of Big Country. The old site can still be found by clicking on the rat logo. Not all sections of the site are up yet, but enough to get going. Click on the Introduction button, to get background information on the ‘Book of Lyrics’ project and other useful information |
